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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
> Marco:
> >It lack phonological substance.
> >Perhaps Greek /mallos/ is Nakh-related, but further information is
> >needed.
>
> So you would work against what you claim to be "airy" by providing
> an even airier connection with a remote language group that was
> never in contact with Greek at all? No thanks. You haven't properly
> thought out your idea so there's nothing to consider.
As Marco believes that Tyrrhenian is part of Greater NEC (
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratic-L/message/559 ), his idea
probably has been thought out. It may be based on an error in
identifying Tyrrhenian, but that is another matter (and for
Nostratic-L, where it has been aired).
It might also be a loan survival of an NEC-related PIE word.
However, on the basis of what is more likely, each such word is
probably not, and therefore we should conclude that it is not, and
therefore our etymologies will show that there are no such words.
This paradox is related to those caused by 'regression to the mean'.
Richard.